Active Parenting Quotes

I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.

Move with them, be active with them - whether it's swimming or scooting or bicycling or playing soccer. Engage your child.

I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

I'm a hands-on dad.

My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over.

I know what I wanna be and what I don't wanna be, which is an absent parent. I wanna be hands-on.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

I'm looking forward to not being tired around my child. My father was tired a lot. I want to play ball with my child without having to grab my shoulder because I'm not physically fit. And I want to really teach my child and become his or her friend.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

The thought of being active in my kid's lives motivates me.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I'm the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.

My husband and I make physical activity a priority in our lives, and our daughters love being active as well. And while we each have sports and activities we enjoy, we try to go for hikes or bike rides together whenever we get the chance. We've found that the best way to help our girls be active is to find activities they truly enjoy.

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.